We had a family gathering ( my wife’s side ) over the weekend , her only brother ( and 5 sisters ) were here.
Now her brother , is a highly trained Professor, with a list of PHD’s and lectures at one of Queenslands major universities.
The discussion at one stage got to “ Artificial Intelligence “ and its effect and potential affect on society.
Knowing I was a Rugby League fan he said “ Mark were you aware that 90% of articles you now read on your game are written by AI” , me “ you aren’t serious are you “.
But he was.
Then we moved onto how AI can create a being that looks like you , sounds like you , but actually isn’t you.
Bull**** says me
“ Ok I’ll prove it to you “ , I’ll grab my laptop from the car , and then I’ll connect my phone to it and video you for 30 seconds “ and then in about 5 minutes I’ll show you a video of you speaking about a topic you have no knowledge of “
Ok says me , how about making me a heart surgeon!!
Well **** me drunk , 10 minutes later , he’s produced a video of me , talking with my voice , about my expertise in heart surgery rattling off all sorts of **** I wouldn’t know !!
Now just think about this if you will !!
You can make it a footballer if you like ,or the Prime Minister if you prefer , all Prof Steve needs , is some video/ audio of the person and he can then create ANYTHING.
The vision could be of the being making a stupid statement OR being involved in something much more untoward.
If this doesn’t scare the **** out of you , then the next bit will.
He said there are currently 10,000 or more programmers out there ( most coming from Iran / China / Russia ) creating “ Chaos GPT” , which has the potential to influence every single election in western countries with “ fake news “ ( think AI talking heads here ).
He said we are less than 2 years away from AI potentially being able to control the world we live in , without us having a say!!
No this isn’t a rumour monger , he’s a major academic, in his 60’s , and was telling me this as he’s frustrated that governments are just sticking their heads in the sand about it.
The world as we know it is rapidly changing.
And there’s much much more ( autonomous AI) but we ran out of time.
Anyone got any similar views ??
Now her brother , is a highly trained Professor, with a list of PHD’s and lectures at one of Queenslands major universities.
The discussion at one stage got to “ Artificial Intelligence “ and its effect and potential affect on society.
Knowing I was a Rugby League fan he said “ Mark were you aware that 90% of articles you now read on your game are written by AI” , me “ you aren’t serious are you “.
But he was.
Then we moved onto how AI can create a being that looks like you , sounds like you , but actually isn’t you.
Bull**** says me
“ Ok I’ll prove it to you “ , I’ll grab my laptop from the car , and then I’ll connect my phone to it and video you for 30 seconds “ and then in about 5 minutes I’ll show you a video of you speaking about a topic you have no knowledge of “
Ok says me , how about making me a heart surgeon!!
Well **** me drunk , 10 minutes later , he’s produced a video of me , talking with my voice , about my expertise in heart surgery rattling off all sorts of **** I wouldn’t know !!
Now just think about this if you will !!
You can make it a footballer if you like ,or the Prime Minister if you prefer , all Prof Steve needs , is some video/ audio of the person and he can then create ANYTHING.
The vision could be of the being making a stupid statement OR being involved in something much more untoward.
If this doesn’t scare the **** out of you , then the next bit will.
He said there are currently 10,000 or more programmers out there ( most coming from Iran / China / Russia ) creating “ Chaos GPT” , which has the potential to influence every single election in western countries with “ fake news “ ( think AI talking heads here ).
He said we are less than 2 years away from AI potentially being able to control the world we live in , without us having a say!!
No this isn’t a rumour monger , he’s a major academic, in his 60’s , and was telling me this as he’s frustrated that governments are just sticking their heads in the sand about it.
The world as we know it is rapidly changing.
And there’s much much more ( autonomous AI) but we ran out of time.
Anyone got any similar views ??
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